hermetical

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But listing names of alleged abusers from such a closed, hermetical country was a valuable – and difficult – exercise, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2016

The closing is made hermetical by means of an India rubber tube, K, which presses against the glass and the cover.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884 by Various

Tin makes an hermetical filling, and resists the disintegrating action of the fluids of the mouth.

From Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth by Ambler, Henry Lovejoy

The heat kills all the bacteria which may chance to be lodged in it, and the hermetical sealing prevents other bacteria from obtaining access.

From The Story of Germ Life by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

Besides that, the patent hermetical barrel trade, and numerous other industries connected with the oil trade, will prosper at an unprecedented rate, to the great benefit and glory of the country.

From What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Bastiat, Frédéric